Flagbearer of the governing National Democratic Congress, President John Mahama on Tuesday presented highlights of his party’s 2016 manifesto.
The party will officially launch its manifesto in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region on Saturday ahead of the 2016 general elections.
President Mahama is seeking have his mandate renewed and is facing stiff opposition from the New Patriotic Party led by Nana Akufo-Addo.
Highlighting the NDC’s 2016 manifesto which he said falls within four thematic areas; President Mahama listed a number of initiatives his party intends to undertake in his second term in all sectors including, education, health, infrastructure, economy, industry, job creation, among others.
The thematic areas he said are: putting people first, strong and resilient economy, responding to social infrastructure and improving transparent and accountable governance.
E-textbooks
On education which falls under putting people first, the president said he intends to provide basic schools with tablets to replace text books and also extend the progressively free Senior High School policy to boarding students.
“We are going to pilot the use of electronic textbooks at the junior and senior high level and if this pilot is successful then we will expand it across the board… We shall expand the progressive free SHS before the end of my term and also extend it to cover boarding students,” he added.
Touching on the economy, the president said his government will ensure that the cedi is stabilized and the inflation rate is decreased to a single digit in his second term.
With regards to infrastructure, he said his government would expand access to roads and other social amenities.
The event was attended by the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, government functionaries, representative of international organisations, Diplomatic community as well as leadership of the NDC.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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